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  • 8 - Rebuilding Repair

  • Aaron Perzanowski, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
  • Book:
    The Right to Repair
    Published online:
    30 December 2021
    Print publication:
    08 February 2022, pp 223-262

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines the steps needed to rebuild a culture of repair. The same tools firms enlist to stifle repair can be used to reinvigorate it. Laws can be rewritten, markets reorganized, designs reconfigured, and norms reshaped. From tax incentives and spare part mandates to design standards and warranty protections, an array of policy interventions should be undetaken. But at the same time, we have to change our attitudes and behaviors as consumers.

The Right to Repair
  • Reclaiming the Things We Own
  • Aaron Perzanowski
  • Published online:
    30 December 2021
    Print publication:
    08 February 2022
  • In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. While this strategy has enriched companies almost beyond measure, it has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of consumers and imposed massive environmental costs on the planet. In The Right to Repair, Aaron Perzanowski analyzes the history of repair to show how we've arrived at this moment, when a battle over repair is being waged - largely unnoticed - in courtrooms, legislatures, and administrative agencies. With deft, lucid prose, Perzanowski explains the opaque and complex legal landscape that surrounds the right to repair and shows readers how to fight back.